Upgrading from Ub. 10.10 to 11.04 makes Broad-com Wireless Adapter Fail

[Erwin Michel]

Binary package hint: gnome-nettool

After Upgrading to 11.04 from 10.10 my internal Broadcom Wireless adapter does not work. wlan devices does not exist.
PC: Acer Aspire 5601Z
See output of lshw - c network:

@laptop:~$ sudo lshw -C network
  *-network
       description: Network controller
       product: BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
       version: 01
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=0
       resources: irq:19 memory:d0000000-d0003fff
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 1
       bus info: pci@0000:06:01.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 02
       serial: 00:16:d4:dd:6e:37
       size: 100Mbit/s
       capacity: 100Mbit/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=b44 driverversion=2.0 duplex=full ip=192.168.1.69 latency=64 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100Mbit/s
       resources: irq:21 memory:d0100000-d0101fff

Output of lspci
05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)
06:01.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)

Under Additional Drivers it says Broadcom STA Wireless Driver is activated and in use.

Thanks for the help.
Erv

[Erwin Michel (erwin-swisscc)]

NM-Tool output.... only sees Auto eth0

laptop:~$ nm-tool

NetworkManager Tool

State: connected

- Device: eth0 [Auto eth0] ----------------------------------------------------
  Type: Wired
  Driver: b44
  State: connected
  Default: yes
  HW Address: 00:16:D4:DD:6E:37

  Capabilities:
    Carrier Detect: yes
    Speed: 100 Mb/s

  Wired Properties
    Carrier: on

  IPv4 Settings:
    Address: 192.168.1.69
    Prefix: 24 (255.255.255.0)
    Gateway: 192.168.1.254

    DNS: 192.168.1.254

[Wolfgang Kufner (wolfgangkufner)]

Please post the output of:
lspci -k | grep Network --after-context 3
to see what drivers are availabe/in use.

[Wolfgang Kufner (wolfgangkufner)]

And:
lspci -vvnn | grep Network
to see the exact type of hardware.

[Erwin Michel (erwin-swisscc)]

output of lspci -k | grep Network --after-context 3

~$ lspci -k | grep Network --after-context 3
05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)
 Subsystem: AMBIT Microsystem Corp. Device 0422
 Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
 Kernel modules: wl, ssb

Output of 0lspci -vvnn | grep network.

05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN [14e4:4311] (rev 01)

[Erwin Michel (erwin-swisscc)]

Aftre the upgrade when it did not work, I took out the Restricted Broadcom Driver, and then used the GUI under System to reinstall.

Same issues.

Erv

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #732677, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.